OT: Cloud Operating System
by taharka
Forecast: Xcerion Clouds the OS Horizon, Fuzzes Google, Microsoft Out of
Picture
By Darryl K. Taft
March 5, 2007
Opinion: A Swedish startup with big-name backers touts its vision of a
cloud operating system—something that Microsoft and Google have yet to
show clearly.
When it comes to talk about computing in "the cloud," my thinking on the
subject is, well, cloudy. I know companies like Google and Microsoft are
working on getting there, and Salesforce.com is basically cloud central.
But nobody's achieved this overall strategy of building out a back-end
infrastructure to support an extensive network of services residing out
on the Web. So, even though I'm not from Missouri, my attitude about
this cloud stuff has been "show me."
Full article at;
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2100538,00.asp?kc=EWITAEMNL030507EOAD
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
17 years, 2 months
haveing prob with firefox2 and yahoo
by Craig
I haveing a prob try to check my yahoo mail with
firefox2 is anyone other then me haveing probs i get
this error
Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the
server.
* Check to make sure your system has the
Personal Security Manager
installed.
* This might be due to a non-standard
configuration on the server.
any ideas?
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17 years, 2 months
Adding a printer to OpenOffice
by Frank Cox
I want to automatically create a .ps file from a html file using a script on
this FC6 machine.
It seems to me that OpenOffice should fit this bill as it can load a html file
and print to a PostScript file. However, doing this automatically from the
commandline is becoming a challenge.
I thought I might be able to set up a printer using spadmin that would simply
print to a file, then use a command like:
ooffice -pt textfileprinter document.html
Unfortunately, I have run into a roadblock here in that, on my installation of
OpenOffice, when I run /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin and select
"new printer" the options "Add a printer" (and "Import printers from a
StarOffice intallation", though this one is not relevant) are greyed out and
the only selections that I can make are "Connect a fax device" or "Connect a
PDF converter".
So how can I add a printer to OpenOffice that will print to a Postscript file?
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17 years, 2 months
Re: Consistency
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
>>> >> Why should this differ from what you'd say about dovecot?
>>>
>> > When I set up dovecot I had to edit /etc/dovecot.conf before it worked:
>> >
>> > diff dovecot.conf dovecot.conf.centos
>> > 14c14
>> > < protocols = imap imaps pop3
>> > ---
>> > > #protocols = imap imaps
>> > 21,22c21,22
>> > < imap_listen = 192.168.255.254:143
>> > < pop3_listen = 192.168.255.254:110
>>
>
> I don't get it. I do 'yum install dovecot' and 'service dovecot start'
> and it answers on pop3/pop3s/imap/imaps on my network interface.
> Is that the current fedora version you are describing?
>
>
I'm running dovecot under CentOS 4.4. I like more stability and less
volatility for my server than FC provides. The "customization" is
required since I only want dovecot to listen for IMAP/POP connections on
my internal LAN. Yes, these ports are blocked on my external NIC but I
like the idea that dovecot doesn't accept connections from an external
address. I also vaguely remember that it complained for some reason I
didn't specify just the internal network. Unfortunately, that was long
enough ago that I don't recall the exact complaint.
Dovecot on my server is:
[root@fraud etc]# rpm -q dovecot
dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4
It looks like 1.1 is available for FC6. From "yum info dovecot":
Available Packages
Name : dovecot
Arch : i386
Version: 1.0
Release: 1.1.rc15.fc6
Size : 1.5 M
Repo : updates
Summary: Dovecot Secure imap server
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 2 months
New UPS, can't find its device?
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
FC6 system, uptodate as of an hour ago.
My old ups has been missing power bumps, causing resets, but its battery
is fresh and good, so I popped for a new Belkin F6C1500-TW-RK
When I plugged its usb cable into a usb2.0 hub, I got this in dmesg:
usb 3-3.4.4: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 3-3.4.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hiddev96: USB HID v1.11 Device [Belkin Belkin UPS] on
usb-0000:00:02.2-3.4.4
That last 'device' I assume I'd find in /proc.
However, when I do an lsusb -v|grep -A56 'Bus 003 Device 008', this falls
out:
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 050d:0751 Belkin Components
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x050d Belkin Components
idProduct 0x0751
bcdDevice 0.01
iManufacturer 4 Belkin
iProduct 20 Belkin UPS
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 34
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 20mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 3 Human Interface Devices
bInterfaceSubClass 0 No Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 0 None
iInterface 0
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 33
bcdHID 1.11
bCountryCode 33 US
bNumDescriptors 1
bDescriptorType 34 Report
wDescriptorLength 543
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes
bInterval 248
And, apparently udev is at work as I have two new devices in the /dev
directory that showed up when I plugged the usb cable from it into the
hub:
crw------- 1 root root 254, 24 Mar 5 16:50 usbdev3.8_ep00
crw------- 1 root root 254, 25 Mar 5 16:50 usbdev3.8_ep81
The ups is powered up, so it seems like I should be able to cat that
puppy, but:
[root@coyote Bulldog]# cat /dev/usbdev3.8_ep00
cat: /dev/usbdev3.8_ep00: No such device or address
rinse lather repeat for the _ep81 address:
There are not any /dev/ttyUSB* devices beyond the one associated with a
pl2303 cable that's plugged in also. The instructions from Belkin to
install their monitoring software says the device it is going to use must
be present before running the installer. Am I not building enough
modules in my 2.6.20+rds custom kernel or what?
Thanks all.
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17 years, 2 months
FC6 vs FC6 respin? how to tell?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm sure there's a trivial answer to this but i was just handed an
unlabelled DVD, allegedly of the FC6 respin. short of comparing some
RPM versions on the DVD, is there an obvious way to tell that this is
the respin and not the original FC6? thanks.
rday
17 years, 2 months
Can I generate Installation DVD from Development repository
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail
Thanks for responding Bruno .. however, I got some question about ur
script .. trying to understand how it works
On 3/3/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
> I do this by creating a fudged .discinfo file containing the following:
> 1170104239.562016
> Fedora 6.90
> i386
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
> Fedora/base
what is this line for? I can change this to something else right? if
yes, what are the acceptible values?
> /srv/pungi/20070129.1/6.90/Desktop/i386/os/Fedora
> Fedora/pixmaps
>
> and then run the following to make an install DVD with all of the packages
> currently in core:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> publisher="Bruno Wolff III"
> release="7"
>
> ##############################################################################
>
> export FCBASE=`pwd`
> arch=`uname -i`
> date=`date +%Y%m%d`
>
> mkdir -p $FCBASE/$arch
is $FCBASE/core is the core repo? my mirrored repo is mirrored using
reposync instead of rsync (therefore, I only have the RPMs .. other
stuff in the hierachy are not downloaded) ... do i need to add some
more stuff into FCBASE?
> rsync --archive $FCBASE/core/ $FCBASE/$arch
> repomanage --old i386/Fedora/RPMS | xargs rm -f
> cp $FCBASE/.discinfo $FCBASE/$arch
>
> find $arch -name "TRANS.TBL" -exec rm -f {} \;
> mkisofs -q -r -R -J -T -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
> -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -boot-info-table \
> -V "FC $release update$date $arch DVD" \
> -A "Fedora Core $release update$date $arch DVD" \
> -publisher "$publisher" -p "$publisher" -x lost+found \
> -o FC-$release-update$date-$arch-DVD.iso $arch
>
> You might also be able to just use the boot.iso and custom repositories,
> but I don't know how to do that.
>
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17 years, 2 months
Connecting to a printer in a MS Windows network
by Paul Smith
Dear All
My Fedora computer is connected to a MS Windows, where the printers
are connected. Could someone please indicate to me how to connect to
the printers?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 2 months
